The
Graphics Lab is a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. Requests for image improvements can be added to the workshop pages:
Illustrations,
Photographs and
Maps. For questions or suggestions one can use the talk pages:
Talk:Graphics Lab,
Talk:Illustrations,
Talk:Photographs and
Talk:Maps.
This specific page is the main, central discussion page for the entire graphics lab. Any comments or questions about the lab may be made here. Note that requests for image improvement, etc. do not belong here but should go on one of the
main requests pages
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Are there labs for multimedia? – SJ + 02:25, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film#SVG_film_posters regarding the potential for using SVG for film/movie posters. I'm soliciting feedback on an image I've already uploaded with an eye towards doing more if the example proves to be acceptable/popular. Please reply at the discussion there. Thank you! — Locke Cole • t • c 04:25, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello everyone. I vectorised
and
, and they now exist as SVG versions in
and
. I specifically asked for the person requesting conversion to replace the images in the appropriate articles. However, this didn't happen, the request was just archived without further action. This left me with the situation that I did work to improve Wikipedia, but it didn't actually improve Wikipedia; all articles still had the old PNG files. Not good. So I just spent the last hour or so going through dozens of Wikipedias and manually replacing these. But even after this extemely tedious work,
File:Flag of Vladimir.png is still in use in over 200 articles, and
File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Vladimir_(Vladimir_oblast).png in about 20 articles. And then, while doing the replacement, I found two more PNG files,
and
(yes these are different files, with basically identical content), which together are in use in another 200 or so articles.
I am really exhausted (I am not a WP:GNOME!) and I can't continue. I am writing not because I want help, but because I am looking for a general solution to this problem. Who is responsible for replacing inferior images after the Graphics Lab created a superior version? The requester? The artist? Noone? This lack of a proper workflow really frustrates me and already does lessen my willingness to work on the Graphics Lab. Is there a solution? I am most certainly not the first in this situation. Do people just not care? -- Lommes ( talk) 14:31, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
References
Lommes ( talk) 14:31, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I'm here as part of my work for Beutler Ink, on behalf of our client, Gallup, Inc. Gallup is interested in making its polling data more accessible to Wikipedia for editors to use. There are quite a few graphics in Category:Gallup polls at Wikimedia Commons already, a few of which are images the company recently donated. My question for editors here is: are these the sorts of graphics that editors are looking for, and is there a better way for Gallup to make its data available? I'm asking here because I thought graphists might find the question interesting, and have insights into what would be most helpful.
Gallup isn't looking to place graphics in any specific articles, but they have a lot of polling data and are hoping to collaborate with the Wikipedia community. Cheers! BINK Robin ( talk) 16:37, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
The
Graphics Lab is a project to improve the graphical content of the Wikimedia projects. Requests for image improvements can be added to the workshop pages:
Illustrations,
Photographs and
Maps. For questions or suggestions one can use the talk pages:
Talk:Graphics Lab,
Talk:Illustrations,
Talk:Photographs and
Talk:Maps.
This specific page is the main, central discussion page for the entire graphics lab. Any comments or questions about the lab may be made here. Note that requests for image improvement, etc. do not belong here but should go on one of the
main requests pages
This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Graphics Lab page. |
|
Archives:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5Auto-archiving period: 120 days
![]() |
![]() | Graphics Lab was featured in a WikiProject Report in the Signpost on 13 September 2010. |
Are there labs for multimedia? – SJ + 02:25, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film#SVG_film_posters regarding the potential for using SVG for film/movie posters. I'm soliciting feedback on an image I've already uploaded with an eye towards doing more if the example proves to be acceptable/popular. Please reply at the discussion there. Thank you! — Locke Cole • t • c 04:25, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello everyone. I vectorised
and
, and they now exist as SVG versions in
and
. I specifically asked for the person requesting conversion to replace the images in the appropriate articles. However, this didn't happen, the request was just archived without further action. This left me with the situation that I did work to improve Wikipedia, but it didn't actually improve Wikipedia; all articles still had the old PNG files. Not good. So I just spent the last hour or so going through dozens of Wikipedias and manually replacing these. But even after this extemely tedious work,
File:Flag of Vladimir.png is still in use in over 200 articles, and
File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Vladimir_(Vladimir_oblast).png in about 20 articles. And then, while doing the replacement, I found two more PNG files,
and
(yes these are different files, with basically identical content), which together are in use in another 200 or so articles.
I am really exhausted (I am not a WP:GNOME!) and I can't continue. I am writing not because I want help, but because I am looking for a general solution to this problem. Who is responsible for replacing inferior images after the Graphics Lab created a superior version? The requester? The artist? Noone? This lack of a proper workflow really frustrates me and already does lessen my willingness to work on the Graphics Lab. Is there a solution? I am most certainly not the first in this situation. Do people just not care? -- Lommes ( talk) 14:31, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
References
Lommes ( talk) 14:31, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
Hello! I'm here as part of my work for Beutler Ink, on behalf of our client, Gallup, Inc. Gallup is interested in making its polling data more accessible to Wikipedia for editors to use. There are quite a few graphics in Category:Gallup polls at Wikimedia Commons already, a few of which are images the company recently donated. My question for editors here is: are these the sorts of graphics that editors are looking for, and is there a better way for Gallup to make its data available? I'm asking here because I thought graphists might find the question interesting, and have insights into what would be most helpful.
Gallup isn't looking to place graphics in any specific articles, but they have a lot of polling data and are hoping to collaborate with the Wikipedia community. Cheers! BINK Robin ( talk) 16:37, 3 November 2023 (UTC)